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  • Publication | 2022
Sankey diagrams of woody biomass flows in the European Union

Browse the Sankey diagrams and visualise the woody biomass flows within the forest-based sector in the European Union (2009-2017 data).

Bioeconomy Knowledge Centre

Sankey diagrams of woody biomass flows in the European Union for the years 2009 to 2017 can be downloaded from this page. Starting from primary sources of wood, removals or imports, wood can either feed wood processing industries for the manufacturing of wood-based products or be used for energy production. The woody material transferred across the different transformation steps and among the different subsectors determines complex biomass flows, illustrated with the Sankey diagrams, where the width of each arrow is proportional to the magnitude of the flow.

More information can be found in the related publication: Cazzaniga, N., Jasinevičius, G. and Mubareka, S., Sankey diagrams of woody biomass flows in the EU – Release 2021, European Commission, 2022, JRC127989.